Perhaps mind and matter are like two sides of the same coin. To study such an effect, you could take a ribbon and write mind on the inside and matter on the outside. Now, as you wiggle the ribbon, you’ll find very strong correlations between mind and matter, yet in a fundamental sense never the twain shall meet.

The idea of presentiment assumes that we are constantly and unconsciously scanning our future, and preparing to respond to it. If this is true, then whenever our future involves an emotional response, we’d predict that our nervous system would become aroused before the emotional picture appears.

He considers Cassini Diskus as an information retrieval device, and not as an information transmission device. For him our minds occasionally dip into a holistic reality to bring back tidbits of useful information. Whether that information comes from the beings at the other side of the D-brane cannot yet be ascertain.